Resources for Inquiry: Embodied practices for Healing Racism:
“But all our phrasing—race relations, racial chasm, racial justice, racial profiling, white privilege, even white supremacy—serves to obscure that racism is a visceral experience, that it dislodges brains, blocks airways, rips muscle, extracts organs, cracks bones, breaks teeth. You must never look away from this. You must always remember that the sociology, the history, the economics, the graphs, the charts, the regressions all land, with great violence, upon the body.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates
And so I stand as a Somatic Movement Educator and Continuum teacher with Black Lives Matter (https://blacklivesmatter.com) and support all humans to embody, breathe, speak and move freely, and to raise our voices against discrimination, racial violence and injustice.
Resmaa Menekems interview: Notice the Rage, Notice the Silence
https://onbeing.org/programs/resmaa-menakem-notice-the-rage-notice-the-silence/
“My Grandmother’s Hands” by Resmaa Menakem: https://www.amazon.com/My-Grandmothers-Hands-Racialized-Pathway/dp/1942094477
also at:https://bookshop.org/books/my-grandmother-s-hands-racialized-trauma-and-the-pathway-to-mending-our-hearts-and-bodies-9781942094470/9781942094470
Robin Diangelo’s White Fragility: Why it’s so hard for white people to talk about racism SOLD OUT available only on Kindle until July 1 then your local independent bookseller or Amazon
Santa Cruz TED talks with local Hamza Al Hadairi : “Different is not Dangerous: http://www.tedxsantacruz.org/talks/different-not-dangerous/
Tara Brach podcasts: “ A Courageous Presence with Racism” https://youtu.be/7MLGkGCLKw8
“Between the World and Me” by Ta-Nehisi Coates: https://www.amazon.com/Between-World-Me-Ta-Nehisi-Coates/dp/0451482212
“So you want to talk about race” by Ijeoma Oluo: https://www.amazon.com/You-Want-Talk-About-Race/dp/1580056776
“me and white supremacy” by Layla F. Saad: https://www.amazon.com/Me-White-Supremacy-Combat-Ancestor/dp/1728209803
“Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together In The Cafeteria?” by Beverly Daniel Tatum: https://www.amazon.com/Black-Kids-Sitting-Together-Cafeteria/dp/0465091296
“This Book is Anti-Racist” by Tiffany Jewell: https://www.amazon.com/This-Book-Anti-Racist-lessons-action/dp/0711245215